Arrest made in brutal Chinatown beating, carjacking in April: police
Five months after 61-year-old Jin Yut Lew was brutally beaten, robbed, carjacked and left for dead near the Chinatown neighborhood, Chicago police announced an arrest in the case.
But after “good old-fashioned” police work, Termaine Patterson, 18, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, aggravated vehicular hijacking and armed robbery, said Deenihan and Deering District police Cmdr. Don Jerome, who was also at the news conference.A juvenile was also arrested in connection with the case, but was charged only with possession of a stolen motor vehicle after he was found a few days after the attack in Lew’s SUV, Deenihan said.
bleeding from the head on a sidewalk in the 2500 block of South Princeton Avenue, police said at the time. Lew, who was unidentified at that time, was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition. Two days later, police went back to the hospital because a witness had identified Lew, whose 2008 Lexus SUV had been reported stolen.